Inquiry Task #1: For your grade / course, identify the "generic" inquiry-based skills you currently employ with your students.
Competencies: Laboratory Competency: Use the process of scientific inquiry to collect, organize, and analyze data, information and observations to develop conclusions.Science Depth Of Knowledge: Level 2: Skills and Concepts, Level 3: Strategic Thinking and Level 4: Extended Thinking Inquiry Skills: Formulating Questions and Hypothesizing, Planning and Critiquing Investigations, Conducting Investigation and Evaluating Explanations
Problem Solving Competency: Use problem solving skills to model, evaluate, and make predictions about the systems.Science Depth Of Knowledge: Level 2: Skills and Concepts, Level 3: Strategic Thinking and Level 4: Extended Thinking Inquiry Skills: Formulating Questions and Hypothesizing, Planning and Critiquing Investigations, Conducting Investigation and Evaluating Explanations
Inquiry Task #2: List the units that currently are taught in which inquiry skills appear.
Ancient Technologies
Motion
Galieo's Experiments
Inquiry Task #3: Brain-storm ideas for how your current units or activities can be made more inquiry-based.
Inquiry Task #1: For your grade / course, identify the "generic" inquiry-based skills you currently employ with your students.
Competencies:
Laboratory Competency: Use the process of scientific inquiry to collect, organize, and analyze data, information and observations to develop conclusions.Science Depth Of Knowledge: Level 2: Skills and Concepts, Level 3: Strategic Thinking and Level 4: Extended Thinking
Inquiry Skills: Formulating Questions and Hypothesizing, Planning and Critiquing Investigations, Conducting Investigation and Evaluating Explanations
Problem Solving Competency: Use problem solving skills to model, evaluate, and make predictions about the systems.Science Depth Of Knowledge: Level 2: Skills and Concepts, Level 3: Strategic Thinking and Level 4: Extended Thinking
Inquiry Skills: Formulating Questions and Hypothesizing, Planning and Critiquing Investigations, Conducting Investigation and Evaluating Explanations
Inquiry Task #2: List the units that currently are taught in which inquiry skills appear.
Ancient Technologies
Motion
Galieo's Experiments
Inquiry Task #3: Brain-storm ideas for how your current units or activities can be made more inquiry-based.
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